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Date:      Thu, 30 Jul 1998 16:03:09 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        Rob McIntyre <rob@perihelion.co.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: fsck errors: partially allocated inodes
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.00.9807301602280.17630-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199807300838.JAA28894@betty.perihelion.co.uk>

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On Thu, 30 Jul 1998, Rob McIntyre wrote:

> To my potential saviour,
> 
> I am trying to debug a version of newfs that has been ported to the 
> Helios operating system. 
> After running  newfs on the ide device, I get spurious errors including 
> the following:
> 
> partially allocated inode = 0x68
> 
> unknown file type inode = 0x9a
> 
> in blkerror
> 
> The errors seem to come in blocks of partially allocated inodes 
> followed by an arbitrary amount of unknown file types messages. 
> 
> I have experimented useing various disk layouts and still the errors 
> occcur in the same place on the ide disk.

Would't that suggest to you that there's a problem with the disk itself?

> I would be grateful for any advice on the true meaning of these errors 
> and for debugging newfs and fsck which is not a very pleasent task 
> with 214MB devices.

If you think it's unpleasant with 214MB, try an 8 gig array.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major


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